Realm News - EU Magtheridon PvP - World of Warcraft Realm History

Finally available after this week's maintenance -- maintenance which will last twelve hours straight, between 2am and 2pm. Here are a few of the more important updates.

Arena:
- Season 4 ends. Titles will be awarded just as before.
- There will be no Arena Points reset coming with this patch.
- There will be no Honor Points reset or battleground marks reset coming with this patch, nor WotLK.
- Dalaran Arena and Orgrimmar Arena added to the game.
- New honor rewards: cloaks and trinkets.

Content additions:
- WotLK class changes and revamped talent trees added. Talent points will be reset.
- Inscription added. Inscription is a profession which allows the augmentation of your spells and abilities through the creation of Glyphs. The gathering profession accompanying Inscription is Herbalism.
- Stormwind Harbor added. From it one will be able to board for Auberdine and, come WotLK, Northrend.
- Mounts and non-combat pets become trainable spells, accessible through the Character Panel.
- Barbershops added.
- Improved graphical effects, amongst which the infamous shadow engine, added.
- The Caverns of Time zone modified to accommodate the Caverns of Time: Stratholme instance entrance; the instance zone is not available at this time.
- Badges of Justice and PvP Tokens become available through the Token Interface; translation: more bad space.
- The amount of experience needed between levels 60 and 70 is now lowered.

Content removed:
- Onyxia quest chain removed.
- Atiesh quest chain removed.
- Naxxramas removed from Eastern Plaguelands.
- Hand of A'dal and Champion of the Naaru titles unobtainable anymore.
- Zul'aman's bear mounts unobtainable anymore.

Raid mechanics changed:
- Mechanics of buffs, debuffs and auras changed according to Blizzard's new philosophy in regards to class stacking.
- Raid instances added in the Burning Crusade have all their npcs reduced in health by 30% and their melee damage is toned down, while most boss abilities are kept -- notable exception: Illidan Stormrage's Shear is removed.

Item revamps:
- Huge change in regards to Healing and Spell damage. These two stats are removed, their place being taken by Spell Power. Items and enchants adding school specific damage will be revamped so as to add Spell Power; notable exceptions: Soulfrost, Deathfrost, Sunfire. Talents and spells modified to accommodate the new stat.
- Tanking items for warriors and paladins revamped so as to reflect the new tanking mechanics.

Read the official 3.0.2 Patch Notes.
For a long-winded list, you can check Schwick's 3.0.2 FAQ on the official forums.